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Check out the post I made last night, "Ive been working on the railroad room".  There are a few pictures of my construction project.  My basement is poured walls and there is a french drain around the edges of the slab.  This is just a 1/2 inch gap between the walls and floor to keep the water from getting onto the floor and keep it in the sump.  My walls were covered in insulation and I just set the walls out from the wall a couple inches.  The big thing to look for is ceiling height.  Poured walls may not be as tall and the finished room may have some head space issues.  You will find that the floor is not level and you will need to level everything from the top down if you want to install dry wall.  I didn't put the drywall all the way down since the bench work is going to cover that area.  Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.  I hung 45 sheets of drywall in the finished side of the basement befor I decided to build a train room.

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